It was written within the context of the author being outed as a professor due to political pressure.
Contextually, some Argentinian political history and the author's background are required, but as a standalone story, it's a wonderful bit of supernatural horror.
can you link?
I was daydreaming about this recently. Assuming the content wouldn’t be removed or suppressed (it would), what kind of information could be spread of platforms that would make the majority, most or even all people stop wanting to use it?
How do we liberate even the most captured consumers of the most terrible platforms?
Unfortunately, the master’s tools will never dismantle the master's house.
The issue is we aren’t being informed, we are being bludgeoned with ragebait “opinions as news” and “news as content” in competition with unlimited streaming subscription services as entertainment.
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
Maybe constant new outrage bait “content” drama has caused people to emulate it in real life at scale unconsciously?
Not sure if a joke, but Civil War?
Maybe I am naive, or was too hopeful, but considering how astroturfed all platforms are by nation states and other bad actors, I only now realized Wikipedia could be extremely compromised due to their inability to withstand such attacks. The internet is over.
How are you this way?
Was one given a gun?
I took an interest in this post and story, which I read, and found that while I appreciate the sentiment, there's actually a lot of misinformation in the post itself.
Casa Tomada*
Brother and sister*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Tomada
Cortázar was not living abroad in 1946 when this was written. He wasn't in France until 1951. In 1946, he worked at a university as a professor of French literature in Mendoza, Argentina, and was being outed by political pressure - this is more specifically what the story is probably about.